On 02/12/2021 10:56, Steve Hayes wrote:
An etymology and translation question.
Would someone with access to the OED (Jerry Friedman?) or similar
etymological dictionary let me know when "projector" first was used
for a person who initiated business projects and ventures?
I think it has now been superseded by words like "entrepreneur", but
it was in use like that in the 18th century -- I just want to know
when it began, and if it was in use in that sense in the second half
of the 17th cenury.
Yes, projector was the word used by the French before they stumbled
across 'entrepreneur', following the remark made by George W.
Did snopes.com say that George W. lived in the 17th century?
Yes, projector was the word used by the French before they stumbled
across 'entrepreneur', following the remark made by George W.
(Don't believe everything Snopes.com tells you. It cites the
pathological liar Alastair Campbell, who would deny his own grandmother
if it served his political purposes.)
Did snopes.com say that George W. lived in the 17th century?
No, but here Jacob Rees Mogg is known as the "Honourable Member for the
18th century".
Aye, and in the 17th century the English word "factory" was not
primarily a manufactory, but more like a warehouse.
Yet nowadays Factory" usually means the premises on which something is >manufactured, and "industrialist" means tomeone who develops or owns
or manages such premises and the activities that go on within.
I still remember the origin of Baba Yaga that I read as a
child in an antology of Russian 18-th Russian fantasy (for
those who think Karamzin and Pushkin the fathers of our lit-
erary language!). The Devil was boiling twelve evil wives
in a huge cauldron. He was so shocked at what he saw inside
that he took the cauldron and crashed it forcefully onto the
floor, breaking the creature's leg. He then reconsidered and
made her a leg of bone by way of a protesis.
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